ProFootballTalk- Buccaneers quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick‘s eight touchdown passes through the first two weeks have launched countless headlines that make reference to Fitzmagic, but an NFL defensive back is trying to intercept the moniker.
Dolphins rookie defensive back Minkah Fitzpatrick has filed to trademark the phrase with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The filing was made on September 12, per Darren Heitner of TheSportz.Biz, and the intent is to sell a range of apparel featuring the term in the future. Jenna Laine of ESPN reports that Minkah Fitzpatrick’s mother said her son has gone by the moniker since his high school days, although a seach of the phrase finds many more references to the Buccaneers quarterback than anyone else with the last name Fitzpatrick. -------- I have a pretty rudimentary understanding that nothing is truly yours until it is yours legally, so in that sense I'm impressed that a rookie like Minkah Fitzpatrick is flashing some business savvy in trademarking a nickname that no one outside of his inner circle will ever, in a million years, come to know him by. I just hope he's aware that said business savvy isn't turning a profit if it's aimed at making a likeness that's much less recognizable than Harvard's most homeless looking alum the face of FitzMagic. I'm going to let Minkah's momma in on a little secret here. When her now 21 year old son was running around high school fields kicking the crap out of his peers and convincing his naive friends to call him Fitzmagic, he wasn't pioneering a pun. He was simply riding the obnoxiously scruffy beard hairs of a miraculously mediocre NFL quarterback who was a decade into an up-and-down career that was somehow being kept afloat by out-of-character spurts of dominance that could only be explained by a supernatural, Angels In The Outfield-esque presence. Being talented and having the last name 'Fitzpatrick' may have been enough to claim ownership of FitzMagic before the Ivy League graduated a passer whose unpredictable bouts of brilliance and brutality averaged out to make him a decent backup plan as a slightly subpar folk hero. Now, however, Minkah would need to catch a record setting amount of interceptions with his ass crack to attain the type of aura and mystique necessary to sell even one shirt with his face and a legally stolen moniker. Some nicknames just sound good, and some embody the most notable aspect of a person's entire existence. The NFL equivalent of 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' is 'FitzMagic and FitzTragic', and it's not a tale about some cocky rookie defensive back. It's a true story based on the euphoric highs and embarrassing lows of a 35 year old journeyman of a quarterback who is once again trying to fool us all (myself and DeSean Jackson included) into thinking he's about to make a #1 overall pick a problem child of the Buccaneers' past.
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